we have american eagle outfitters lowering its forecast. thought theye would see declines, but they are not. area up byr goods 0.6%. personal goods, you can see from this, two stocks are rising. even though american outfitters have downgraded their forecast, li and fung seeing gains at the moment. that is one of the areas seeing performance. the nikkei in japan, also green. that is down to largely the yen. look at that. , telecom aboute 2.5%. services up by 3.2%. you can see the computer -- tech equipment is rising 1.6%. the reason for that is this yen weakness. at that. it really has weakened significantly. it was 100 a few days ago. now it is 103. there could be issues about yen depreciation. the likes of china, south korea won't be happy with that. >> breaking news out of sri lanka. the central bank keeping interest rates on hold at 6.5%. we will be talking to the central bank governor and a couple of hours. the thai prime minister is to dissolve parliament. this as antigovernment protesters returned to the streets. from locke -- prime m